LONDON – The goals continued to flow for Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and AS Roma’s Edin Dzeko as they bagged hat-tricks to help their teams take commanding leads in the first legs of their Europa League last 32 ties on Thursday.
United swept aside St. Etienne 3-0 at Old Trafford and Roma made light work of last season’s semifinalist Villarreal with a 4-0 win in Spain, leaving their sides with little work to do in next week’s return encounters.
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